Microsoft wants its digital assistants to get conversational, too. Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant: Everyone has a digital helper now—be they consumers or companies. So if you think Microsoft is going to rest on its laurels with Cortana, you’re wrong. According to a new job posting from Microsoft, the company is looking to create a new Bing bot that

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off the company’s annual I/O developers conference on Wednesday with a keynote address that included previews of a batch of new products. Among those showcased were Google Assistant, a tool that can understand and respond to complex questions in real time; and Home, Google’s highly anticipated response to Amazon’s Echo

Among the most significant announcements on Day One of Google I/O 2016, taking spot in Mountain View, property to Google, is Google Home, a voice-activated solution that brings the Google assistant to any space in your home. Google Home is primarily based on a new conversational Google assistant which further’s Google’s mission:  “to organize the world’s information

If you’ve hesitated about acquiring Amazon’s Echo, your reticence may have paid off. Sometime this fall, Google will release its own voice-activated assistant/Wi-Fi speaker called Google Home, which may be smarter than Amazon’s Alexa or even Apple’s Siri, with a wider array of compatibilities and capabilities than either. Introduced at Google’s I/O Developer’s conference earlier